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This is the place to seek - or to post information about - Flying Boat Squadron crew personnel, Civilian crew personnel or Ground personnel, from any era. Use it to seek out contacts or to record and describe their (or your) exploits for posterity and any crew photographs you may find to post.

A totally vague post but I was at Temora today watching the arrivals and practice for this weekend's flying display when I overheard a well-spoken chap talking to one of the pilots (who flies the HARS Catalina at times) about his time training on Catalinas. He said he trained on "the ones that could only land on the water." It's a long shot but I'm hoping to bump into him tomorrow.

He had a joke with the pilot about how long it took to fly the HARS Cat from Sydney. First time I've come across a former Cat chap.

Andy WrightAircrew Book ReviewI have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library - Jorge Luis Borges

As you might imagine in a crowd of several thousand people I didn't come across the Cat pilot. I did manage to bump into a pair of Australian Spitfire pilots, one of whom took Hurricanes to Russia, flew Spits over Europe and, after the war, transferred to the FAA and flew in Korea.

Andy WrightAircrew Book ReviewI have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library - Jorge Luis Borges